\Weird Al\" Yankovic" Parodies What was he known for? Yankovic is well known for creating parodies of contemporary radio hits, typically which make up about half of his studio releases.
Name one of his parodies
Name one of Weird Al Yankovic's parodies
Yankovic is well known for creating parodies of contemporary radio hits, typically which make up about half of his studio releases. Unlike other parody artists such as Allan Sherman, Yankovic and his band strive to keep the backing music in his parodies the same as the original, transcribing the original song by ear and re-recording the song for the parody. In some cases, in requesting the original band to allow for his parody, the band will offer to help out with the recreation: Dire Straits members Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher perform on "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*", Yankovic's parody of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing", while Imagine Dragons provided Yankovic with advice on how to recreate some of the electronic sounds they used for "Radioactive" in Yankovic's parody "Inactive". Yankovic's career in novelty and comedy music has outlasted many of his "mainstream" parody targets, such as Toni Basil, MC Hammer, and Men Without Hats. Yankovic's continued success (including the top 10 single "White & Nerdy" and album Straight Outta Lynwood in 2006) has enabled him to escape the one-hit wonder stigma often associated with novelty music.  Although many of Yankovic's songs are parodies of contemporary radio hits, it is rare that the song's primary topic lampoons the original artist as a person, or the song itself. Most Yankovic songs consist of the original song's music, with a separate, unrelated set of amusing lyrics. Yankovic's humor normally lies more in creating unexpected incongruity between an artist's image and the topic of the song, contrasting the style of the song with its content (such as the songs "Amish Paradise", "White & Nerdy", and "You're Pitiful"), or in pointing out trends or works which have become pop culture cliches (such as "eBay" and "Don't Download This Song"). Yankovic's parodies are often satirical of popular culture, including television (see The TV Album), movies ("The Saga Begins"), and food (see The Food Album). Yankovic claims he has no intention of writing "serious" music. In his reasoning, "There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline."  Yankovic considered that his first true satirical song was "Smells Like Nirvana", which references unintelligible lyrics in Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Other satirical songs include "Achy Breaky Song", which refers to the song "Achy Breaky Heart", "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long", which refers to the repetitious lyrics in "Got My Mind Set on You", and "Perform This Way", set to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" that drew inspiration from Lady Gaga's outlandish but confident attitude.  Yankovic is the sole writer for all his songs and, for "legal and personal reasons", does not accept parody submissions or ideas from fans. There exists, however, one exception to this rule: Madonna was reportedly talking with a friend and happened to wonder aloud when Yankovic was going to turn her "Like a Virgin" into "Like a Surgeon". Madonna's friend was a mutual friend of Yankovic's manager, Jay Levey, and eventually Yankovic himself heard the story from Levey. CANNOTANSWER
Yankovic's parody of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing",
Krasnaya Plesen (, literally, red mold), is a Russian punk rock group based in Yalta, active from 1989 to this day and having released 55 full albums. The name of the band is a mockery on the term Krasnaya Presnya ( - Red Presnya). Presnya is a name of a neighbourhood in Moscow that saw uprisings during the Russian Revolution of 1905, and during the Soviet era was a popular name for factories and other organizations.

The group is known for its parodies of popular musical artists, especially from Russia, such as Ruki Vverh!, and the profane and racist language used in many of its songs.

Frequent characters in the group's songs include Russian political figures such as Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as made-up characters like Cheburator (a portmanteau of Cheburashka and Terminator), the rural metalhead Balalaykin and Corporal Srul'.

The group's members as of 2010 are Pavel Yatsyna (founder), Sergey "Sid" Mikhaylov, Nika Morozova and Pavel Petrov.

Discography
1991 – Album number 1 (remastered and re-release on CD in 2009 called "Red Scum")
1992 – A snivel in the left ear (and remastered reissue on CD in 2007)
1993 – Hit in the balls (Partial remastering and reissue on CD in 2007)
1993 – Metalhead Balalaykin (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2000)
1994 – New Year's Eve (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2006)
1994 – Vampire Kasholkin (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2005)
1994 – Ballads. Part 1 (re-released in 1996 titled "Ballads and Lyrics")
1994 – Sadistic couplets (reissued in 1996 with the title "A little boy and the other pioneering couplets, and the remastered edition on CD in 2004)
1994 – Ninth delirium (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2005)
1995 – Kabzdets to Chinese planes (Remastered and re-release on CD in 2006 and 2009 titled "Our locomotive, or the Chynese don't fly")
1995 – Sleeping Beauty - part 1
1997 – Sleeping Beauty - part 2
1997 – THE BEST, mother fucka!
1997 – Professor Bibizinsky and size of Chinese sneakers
1998 – Cinderella
1998 – Battle of Kulikovo
1998 – Bulbets to "Titanic"
1998 – Red Flower
1999 – Phone Sex
1999 – UNION of popular parodies 717
1999 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan - 1
2000 – UNION of popular parodies 828
2000 – Eternal kaif
2000 – UNION of popular parodies 1000
2001 – The Adventures of Little Red Riding Hood
2001 – UNION of popular parodies 3003
2001 – Spanner for the cruiser "Aurora"
2001 – UNION of popular parodies 2002
2002 – The Tale of Tsar Saltan - 2
2002 – UNION of popular parodies 6006
2002 – ... you all
2002 – UNION of popular parodies 4004
2003 – Suck, pops!
2003 – UNION of popular parodies 7007
2003 – From the margins to the Kremlin
2004 – UNION of popular parodies 8800
2004 – Fly-Ssykatuha
2004 – Bulbulator
2004 – UNION of popular parodies 9900
2004 – With Symphony Orchestra
2005 – UNION of popular parodies XXX - Cold Twenty
2005 – UNION of popular parodies 1.000.000
2005 – UNION of popular parodies 5.000.000
2006 – Trilogy of Russian punk rock
2006 – UNION of popular parodies 16,000,000
2006 – 46th album
2007 – UNION of popular parodies of "Fried thirty"
2007 – Disco of the Corporal Srul
2007 – Ballads. Part 2
2008 – ZheZZZt
2008 – Kerosene
2009 – Default
2010 – Demotivators (not yet published)
2010 – Ballads (BEST)
2010 – UNION of popular parodies in 2010 (55 anniversary album)
2012 – 21.12.12

External links

Official website 

Russian punk rock groups
Soviet punk rock groups Movies in Fifteen Minutes (known as m15m for short) is primarily the name of a set of Internet-based movie parodies by Cleolinda Jones (a pen name). The parodies first appeared in 2004 on Jones' LiveJournal, but have now been moved to a LiveJournal community of their own.  There have been no new entries since 2012.

Background
Jones wrote the first parody, Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes, for fun; it appeared on her personal blog on 9 May 2004.  Van Helsing in Fifteen Minutes proved surprisingly popular with readers on the internet.  Jones' blog became so popular because of the m15m that she ran out of space for members, so she created a community for the parodies that would accept more members; she then posted subsequent movie parodies in this community.

Book

In 2004, Jones was asked by British publishing company Orion Books if she was interested in writing a book of the parodies. She was, and the book, Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Hollywood Blockbusters For People Who Can't Be Bothered was released in October 2005. It contains "the ten biggest movies ever," parodies not published online. The book is not currently available in the United States, though it has been published in Europe, where it met with praise.

Characteristics
The parodies, written in the style of a screenplay, have a wide appeal, at once scathing and affectionate, with plenty of references to pop culture, Internet fan culture, movie trivia, and just about anything else. Font sizes and punctuation are used inventively (perhaps most memorably in The Matrix in Fifteen Minutes).

Jokes are made at the expense of plot holes, inconsistent character arcs, and bad dialogue amongst other things. The world of Internet fanfiction is also made fun of, with Jones making straight-faced, ridiculous claims about the characters even wilder than those made by the fanfic authors themselves.

Popularity
The parodies are popular on the Livejournal site especially, despite being famous Internet-wide. This has caused various other people to write their own parodies, sometimes under the "Movies in Fifteen Minutes" name. Jones is the owner of the trademark ("Movies in Fifteen Minutes") under the common laws of the United States, and has said she is not comfortable with people using the name for their own parodies.

References

Further reading

External links
 Movies in Fifteen Minutes

Parodies of films
Books about films
British comedy websites
Works published under a pseudonym Saturday Night Live parodies of George H. W. Bush began in 1980 with his vice presidency under Ronald Reagan. The portrayals continued through his presidential campaigns in 1980, 1988, and 1992. SNL has aired dozens of George H. W. Bush parodies by several actors including Jim Downey, Fred Armisen, and most famously by Dana Carvey, regarded as one of the greatest in the show's history.

History
During the 1980 Republican Party presidential primaries, Bush was portrayed by Jim Downey for two sketches.

Starting in 1987, Bush (then vice president) would be portrayed by then-sophomore cast member Dana Carvey, but his presence would greatly increase following Bush's bid for the presidency in 1988 and subsequent victory in a mock Oval Office Address. After leaving office in 1993, Carvey played him on occasion, including the 2000 United States Presidential campaign, where he would assist Governor George W. Bush (impersonated by Will Ferrell) during his presidential campaign. In 2010, Carvey reprised his role in Funny or Die's web short, Presidential Reunion.

Fred Armisen was the third person to play the former president during a 2005 cold opener side by side Darrell Hammond impersonating former president Bill Clinton and Will Forte impersonating president George W. Bush.

Reception
George H. W. Bush was a fan of Carvey's performance, imitating the impression of himself while giving a eulogy at President Gerald Ford's funeral. After losing his bid for re-election to Bill Clinton in 1992, Bush invited Carvey to the White House for the Christmas party. The two would remain very close family friends until Bush's death in 2018, when Carvey called his quarter-century relationship with the former president "an honor and a privilege".

See also
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Joe Biden
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Bill Clinton
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Hillary Clinton
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah Palin
 Saturday Night Live parodies of Donald Trump
 Fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush

References

Cultural depictions of George H. W. Bush
Cultural depictions of presidents of the United States
American political satire
Saturday Night Live sketches
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